Inside the Auditor’s Playbook: How FDOR Selects Businesses for Audit
People assume audit selection is random, or worse, that it’s driven by an anonymous tip or a disgruntled ex-employee. In thirty years on both sides of the table, I’ve seen those things happen exactly a handful of times. The truth is far less dramatic and far more systematic. Florida DOR doesn’t wake up one morning […]
10 Red Flags a Former FDOR Auditor Looks for Before an Audit Even Starts
Every auditor develops a mental checklist within the first few years on the job. Mine came from Deloitte & Touche, the IRS, and finally the Florida Department of Revenue, where I spent years on the other side of the table before I ever represented a taxpayer. That checklist doesn’t disappear once you stop being an […]
What Is a Pre-Audit Readiness Review, and Does Your Business Need One?
I get some version of this question almost every time I bring up a Compliance Readiness Review with a business owner: “If I haven’t gotten an audit notice, why would I pay someone to go looking for problems?” It’s a fair question. Here’s the honest answer. A readiness review doesn’t exist to find problems for […]
Why Waiting Until You Receive an Audit Notice Is the Most Expensive Decision a Business Owner Can Make
Most business owners assume an audit begins the day they receive the audit notice. It doesn’t. An audit actually begins months—or even years—before that letter arrives. By the time a state auditor contacts your business, the transactions have already occurred, the records have already been created, employees have moved on, documents may be missing, and […]